After arousing everyone's curiosity, Jian Chen pointed to the cocoon lane in the distance: "Do you think this thing can make some money?" ”

Everyone hesitated for a while, and finally someone said, "Not necessarily." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoOur cities will use a lot, but the rest of the cities may not use that much. Ordinary civilians could not afford it, and it had to be used with ploughshares, as well as cattle and horses. ”

"There are more slaves...... I probably won't buy it. This thing is expensive, and if the slave smashes it, it will be very distressing. ”

"Moreover, there was so much fertile land near the city that slaves could already cultivate it. But with this thing, there is no need for so many slaves, so what are the extra slaves for? The extra slaves eat for nothing? If you leave the city to cultivate in a distant place, you have to worry about the slaves escaping. ”

Jian Chen clapped his hands and said, "That's a good point, so I came up with a solution." You do it first, and when the chariots in our cities are popularized, you can concentrate the money in your hands and go to other cities to build some small workshops, farms, and the like. You pay for it, you give it your skills, they give you slaves you don't need, you hire slaves, you give money to slave owners. What would they choose if they were given more money than each slave would produce on the land each year? ”

Everyone thought for a while, and then said, "Then you can only do it in places like the Acropolis of Echeng." Our money will be used in a few cities near the Grass River. ”

Jian Chen laughed for a while and said, "Not in the future." ”

He took out a handful of copper coins and a gold coin smelted with a dog's head and threw them to everyone, and everyone was immediately attracted by this round currency, which was very beautiful, and what was even more amazing was that each one looked exactly the same.

The copper coins are smelted, before Chen Jian asked them to carve out sixteen handmade coins with tin, using the sand turning method, the tin coins are placed in the delicate sand, half of the thickness is in the sand on one side, the back is in the sand on the other side, and the tin coins are taken out after the top and bottom are separated.

Sixteen tin coins are eight rows, a total of two lines, and a wooden stick is sandwiched in the middle, and after the wooden stick is removed, the gap in the sand is like a tree. The money is the leaves, the stick marks are the trunks of the trees, and the voids are for pouring copper juice into them. After pouring copper juice, the copper coin is picked from the tree and polished, and the copper trunk is thrown back into the furnace, and the sand can continue to be used.

The technical conditions for smelting and casting copper coins have matured, and now the smelting furnace can reach a high temperature of more than 1,400 degrees, and the melting point of pure copper and pure gold is a little more than 1,000 degrees.

The biggest requirement for casting things is the fluidity of the metal solution, because there will be bubbles in it - just like blowing your nose, there are often bubbles in your nose, and there are even big snot bubbles; But if it were a puddle of water, there would never be so many bubbles, because it wouldn't be sticky.

The copper juice melts perfectly, and it is not a big problem to use it to cast money, and of course it is not a big problem to use it to cast other things - for example, the shell of some utensils that need to be subjected to huge pressure periodically, the melting point of pig iron is too high, the fluidity is not good, and there are bubbles, not to mention, in fact, the inside is also an uneven frozen body of graphite, iron carbide, and iron - bronze is like a glass of salt water, and pig iron is more like a mixture of water and oil.

If you want to implement money, you must break the custom of bartering, and rely on the development of the natural economy to break this habit, without thinking about it for two hundred years, so Chen Jian still wants to use currency as a token and bind it to workshop supplies.

In addition to lending a batch of money to the towns that wanted to buy ironware, the private use was done by these small groups that were not owned by the whole people, collectively or individually.

In the summer city, those with more land can do it alone, and those with less land can be united by more than a dozen or twenty companies, led by the Department of Planning and Statistics, with public property support, and the private forces of the rest of the cities as the pillars, and radiate to the surrounding cities by establishing farms and low-grade product workshops.

At that time, the goods of the Yucheng workshop group were only copper coins, or copper coins were cheaper than physical goods, while the workshop groups in nearby cities gave those people copper coins in exchange for labor, or used copper coins to buy raw materials.

Taube was easy to imitate, and now that the simple concept of money has been accepted within the city, it is time for Taube to step back into the background as a witness to history.

Copper coins are more formal than Taobei, and the copper content itself gives it a certain use value, and it is also easier to be accepted.

Those old Chinese people who were rubbing copper coins obviously liked this thing very much, and they also guessed that this thing was a new currency, and they wondered if Tao Bei was going to change it to this copper coin? This thing looks a lot more reliable than Taugbe.

After Chen Jian made everyone happy for a while, he waved his hand and called all the Chinese people who were still there to try the car, and circled around the ground.

"Now that there are ploughshares, iron tools, and carts, some rules are about to change. For example, if you have a fiefdom, how much grain you must pay each year is determined by a fixed amount. No less. After completing these quotas, you can farm if you are willing to plant, and you can do other things if you are willing to do something, but the grain quota is the bottom line, and if you can't complete it, you can take back the fiefdom. No matter how much money you have, you can't eat, you understand, right? We have to make sure we have enough to eat. ”

Everyone nodded, this is easy to understand, so that you don't starve for a few years, this truth doesn't need to say anything.

"Originally, you might have had to fix all the people to work on the land to pay so much food, but now you don't need so many people. It may be that the fief of 600 people only needs 200 people to farm the land to complete the quota. What about the remaining four hundred? Of course, farming is also possible, but the problem is that now that there is enough food, if the food that a person farms in exchange for something else, is it more profitable? ”

"Like raising horses? Cattle breeding? Sheep farming? Lumbering? Winemaking? Make woodwork? Striking iron? Our control may be relaxed next year, and you still can't do things like salt, iron and copper mines, but everything else may not have to be managed by the public property. You should all think carefully about what your fiefdom is suitable for, and you should think of asking the people in the Planning and Statistics Division to see if your ideas can be implemented. ”

"Again, the grain handed over by your fiefdom every year may change, and if I want wheat this year, you must free up a part of the land to grow the wheat I want; If I want beans next year, I'm going to give them to me. You said that soya beans are more expensive than wheat, and I want to grow soya beans...... Don't even think about it until you have completed your quota; After completing the quota, I am willing to plant as many as I want. Don't blame me for not making it clear, I won't be able to complete the quota when the time comes, and it's hard to say whether the fief is yours or not. ”

For these people sitting around the land, this was great news, and it even shocked them.

From the beginning of the founding of Xia Cheng, everything was controlled by the public property, from grain to pottery to bronze, and now it means that some restrictions should be relaxed, leaving only the things that must survive are still under the monopoly of public property.

A few people thought of some ways to make money almost instantly, and they had thought about it before but couldn't do it, and they didn't dare to do it, but now they have a mind.

The head quickly pointed to the ploughshare lanes: "So the key to the problem is these things?" Only by making good use of these things can we free up manpower, and each person will produce more money every year. ”

Jian Chen praised a few words, and said: "So I asked you to come here, first, there are still many things to learn, you learn them yourself, or send a letter to let a few people from your fiefdom learn." There are some things that you can't learn by just looking at them, you have to work with your own hands, and you can know how much an acre of land can produce, and you can plan for the future. You won't be unhappy to let you stay here until the fall, will you? ”

Everyone laughed, and one said, "What's not to like?" A few years ago, I used to plow the ground with stones in my hands, but now I am walking with a ploughshare, so what's there? Sometimes I can't understand that the boy Manyuan has only been fed for a few days, and he is not happy to let him come to the farm, as if to let him work is to torture him. ”

After laughing for a while, Jian Chen got up and said: "Okay, I'll set aside a piece of land for you, and you will use the ploughshare and columbus to cultivate it yourself, and by the way, send a letter to ask the people of the fiefdom to come and learn from it, otherwise you won't use it if I plow and plow the columbus for you." ”

"Okay, this thing can't be given to you for nothing, the workshop in Yucheng belongs to everyone in our Xia City, and you have to spend money. I can't come up with so much money, but I can give it to you first, and you can give it to me in kind in a few years. Horses, wool, carts, wood, grain, these things. ”

Everyone nodded and said, "We can distinguish between public and private." If you give it to us without money, those who don't have fiefdoms in Xia City should be unhappy, it doesn't make sense. ”

"It's good to understand. Take advantage of the warm weather, you build a few houses to live in, this is built for yourself, and you can only blame yourself for being lazy when the wind and rain leak. In the future, some people will be left here, and if I have any new methods, I will implement them in this farm first, and you will all send people to watch here, so that every two years, we will not use horse-drawn ploughshares here, and you are still grinding stones. ”

A group of people received the tools, laughed and went to build their own huts together, and they were in groups of several people, discussing with each other what they could do in their fiefdoms while working.

In fact, there are a lot of things that can be done, many, many things, and there are no technical bottlenecks, just a slight turn of the head.

Take the agriculture of the two cities of Xia City and Yucheng as an example, there are countless things that can be done according to local conditions. This place is similar to the Central Plains in the previous life, there are no paddy fields and no rice, so there is no need for buffalo. Cattle and horses rot their hooves in paddy fields, but they thrive in dry fields.

Horse-drawn plows are faster, three times as fast as oxen, but oxen can plow deeper and require less human care.

Take Niu Ma as an example, there are many ideas that do not have technical bottlenecks but are great progress.

The harness of the horse in the previous life took a fork in the road, and at first it was tied around the neck like the ox, but the cow and the horse looked different, and the consequences can be imagined. It wasn't until much later that the harness was moved from the neck to the back of the chest to make the horse a usable field animal. There is no technical bottleneck in this, and it has been completed when I was in Xia Cheng without detours.

The feed of cattle and horses will make cattle and horses grow better after green storage and fermentation, and there is no technical bottleneck for this.

In the late autumn, ditches are dug in the meadows near Onozawa to allow water to pour in, ensuring that the grass does not freeze to death due to the cold weather, and that the grass is more fertile next year due to the large amount of silt.

The soybean cake left over after processing soybean oil can be fed to cattle and horses as a high-quality fat licking feed when it is abundant; Cow dung and horse manure can be fermented to fertilize the field, which can increase crop yield; The rotation of legumes and grasses can increase the yield of staple foods by using the nitrogen fixation of legumes, and at the same time, a large number of legumes can increase the number of cattle and horses.

The method of sparse land and sparse people, such as the method of enclosing lakes and creating mulberry fish ponds, is a method of sparse land and wide people, and it is purely dogmatic to use it directly, Chen Jian's brain is not so unbearable, so the agricultural revolution of this era is based on the condition of vast land and sparse people, and it is the premise that land can be wasted on a large scale. (To be continued.) )